Between the Cold War and the Global South: Argentina and Third World Solidarity in the Falklands/Malvinas Crisis

2017/04/01 by Stella Paresa Krepp · 4 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Cold war #Decolonization #Development economics #Economic history #Framing (construction) #Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics #History #Ideology #Law #Narrative #Nationalism #Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America #Political economy #Political science #Politics #Sociology #Solidarity

paper · pdf · doi:10.1590/s2178-14942017000100008

published in Estudos Históricos (Rio de Janeiro) 30(60), 141-160 (Fundação Getúlio Vargas)

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Abstract

Abstract This article looks at Argentine attempts to mobilize the Third World support by framing the Falklands/Malvinas War as a North-South conflict. Despite fundamental ideological divisions, the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Non-Aligned Movement offered support to Argentina, while the NATO powers - the European Economic Community (EEC) and the United States − backed Great Britain. The Falklands/Malvinas was thus a conflict where nationalist agendas linked up with global narratives of decolonization and the Global South.

Citations

• The Struggle for the Falklands

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• Falklands War [wikipedia]

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